User Reviews of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint & Symantec Endpoint Security

Updated April 2025

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint review

AnuragSrivastava
AnuragSrivastava
Information Security Engineering Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Provides detailed visibility into threats but the ability to add exceptions needs...
One major item for improvement is the ability to add exceptions. We can add some exceptions, but not at the level we need to. The second major area for improvement involves enhanced capabilities for different operating systems or platforms. That is, even though we have coverage for different operating systems or platforms such as Linux, we...
Symantec Endpoint Security review

Hakeem_Abdulkareem
Hakeem_Abdulkareem
Head, Security Technology & Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and...
Symantec's application security module needs some improvement. You need to create a lot of fingerprints for application security. For instance, let's say I have different brands of ATMs in my environment, like Wincor and NCR. I use GRG to deploy an application control to whitelist some applications. I have to get the exact image of the...

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